[BC] Legal ID Question

[Mike McCarthy]

I could write a volume on all the legal problems that ownership had with 
all it's stations.  It was not the highest point in my career.  I left 
there two weeks before they got inspected and shut down. Turns out, the FCC 
became suspicious after another two licensees filed complaints about the 
coverage the station had to the east.  The FCC knew I was working towards 
fixing the issues there, and when I left they decided that it appeared the 
owner needed a kick in the head (which was exactly what the managing 
partner needed).

What made the timing so bad was the antenna which was supposed to have been 
up there had been ordered months earlier and in pattern test at that time.

That's some of the facts which got very much overlooked in the micro 
analysis of the whole thing by surrounding stations and the media trades.

MM

At 03:50 PM 8/27/2006 -0400, Dan Kelley wrote
> >Yes, there has been.  WCFL, Morris, IL. was cited about 15 years ago
> >because it ran it's legal in the 55 break and then ran the famous
> >WCFL-Chicago jingle at the top of the hour.  Since there, I know of several
>
> >warning letters written to stations which practiced the same.
>
>I>t's clearly not legal and why stations run them is clearly beyond
> >me.  Many very large and public companies do that and with impunity.
>
> >MM
>
>Not to get off topic, but I recall that same station having some other
>FCC issues concerning power and directional antenna issues that forced
>them off the air for a brief period of time...
>
>dan in lansing
>
>
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